(Split from The Kaworu-Katsuragi Connection Thread)
I don't like tooting my horn all that much, but there's just no way you're fanwanking your way out of this one ;)
The first thing to keep in mind is that EVERY SINGLE ONE of these screenshots is a very first or very last frame from a "shot". These have a much bigger chance of being neglected in the cleanup process, don't ask me why, they just do. If they had reused old cels, it shouldn't look this wobbly and dirty, so I guess it's because even when remastering for Renewal (and doing a great job, really) they couldn't fix it when, at the biginning and end of EVERY SINGLE SHOT, the picture is skewing and slipping in and out of the screen. See for yourself how wobbly it is.
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These dirty frames are at their most dirty at the fast-paced parts. The cleaners probably just lost focus by then, much like I gradually did, retracing their lapses.
This is all, of course, assuming that my theory is right. But there is a possibility that I might be wrong.
No, wait a minute... There isn't.
This is an undisputable pattern. So it's obviously established that the "Tree of Life-ghosting" is linked to these dirty frames. And seeing how some look just like it, some resemble it, and some are nothing like it, I think it's safe to submit that there's no wanking this one off as a fit of genius. Even if the first appearance it IS about the only instance were it occurs in the UPPER edge of the screen.
The last thing to keep in mind is that this was all done in one night, in one sitting, and by one pair of tired eyes, so statistics should indicate that I've probably missed at least 25% of noteworthy frames. And I only scanned two thirds of the movie.
Finally, there's something that came up while I was doing this, and I though I might ruin the mood for you too. There's a small, pubic looking piece of hair, stuck on the right side of the screen, clearly visable during a lot of the string quartet segments. You'll see it.
For further insight, here's a package with ALL the screenies I kept. (5,33MB) [url]http://rapidshare.com/files/906582/DeathDirt.rar.html[/url]
Motherfucker! Did this thing ever take long to compose. Hope it cleared some things up.
for that reason kaworu loves Shinji ....
